Summer Storm

[BAW0343]

All year I have been looking forward to the storms so that I could take some photos of lightning again. I've tried a few times in the past months from my backyard with few results. However today I decided I'd chase down a storm and get a good angle on it and this is what I got:














It's been about 2 years since Ive gotten a good lightning photo, today was something very special for me  ;D

Took them only about 30 min ago  :D I'll spend some time and do some better post processing as I just noticed that stupid 75 sign in the bottom of the pics. Nothing a little photo chopping cant fix  ;)

[ejdahunta]

Wow! Thats amazing! How do you get such perfect pictures of something that happens so fast?

[BAW0343]

Wow! Thats amazing! How do you get such perfect pictures of something that happens so fast?

Reflexes like a cat  ;)


Pretty simple actually, just set the camera to a long exposure. These range from 40 sec to about 5 minutes at an F-stop of f/11 for the first then f/8 for the rest.

[ejdahunta]

Oh alright, I didn't even think of that. I was just picturing you sitting there mashing the shutter button every flash you saw, haha.

[Omag 2.0]

Now THAT'S what I call a decent thunderstorm! What a way to catch those amazing bolts!  :o

[Leigh]

WOW

very very very very good

i remember a thunderstorm about2 years ago it was like the bigest in 50 years

but i was young and didnt have a camera or power

[BigTruck]

Wow! Thats amazing! How do you get such perfect pictures of something that happens so fast?

Reflexes like a cat

[beaky]

 8-)

[Brando14100]

WOW! That's amazing.

8-)

[Willit Run]

Nice catch!!  Great work!!!

[BAW0343]

Thanks for the replys!

Camera was at an ISO of 100, I usually keep it at that whenever I can to reduce noise. Unfortunately with long exposures noise just comes naturally.  

This was hardly a big storm compared to some we've had. In fact there was a bigger storm just behind those mountains you see in the background, and to give you an idea of my location, just behind those mountains is Mexico.

[Mobius]

Nice. 8-)

[Vuikag]

oh my Hubert Cumberdale! amazing pics! you should sell them for like a trillion dollars! or maybe 50 dollars... either way those are awesome!